Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He climbs back into bed , grabs my breast and nuzzles me in the crook of my neck . |
| 2 | ‘ My courage is so high that it will uphold the weakness of my body , ’ he declared in a letter to his mother from Dunkirk . |
| 3 | She begins one sentence : ‘ Although I have no idea how I shall usefully fill the remainder of my life … ’ |
| 4 | This was the way I passed through the remainder of my childhood . |
| 5 | The remainder of my trip includes stops in Hong Kong , Kuala Lumpur , Tokyo and Seoul . |
| 6 | As I sipped the remainder of my beer I reflected on the years that had past , the paddling trips we had done together and all the good times . |
| 7 | The remainder of my paper will deal with the extreme contrast between two South American groups , the Shavante and the Piaroa , in their respective valuation of male maturity . |
| 8 | In fact , she continued to look at me a bit strangely during the remainder of my stay in that department ! |
| 9 | The remainder of my time with him was spent picking up tips on desert survival . |
| 10 | I doubt I 'll every do games for the remainder of my time in this school . |
| 11 | When Yeats first laid eyes on Maud Gonne , in 1889 , ‘ the trembling of my life began ’ , he said , ‘ I had never thought to see in a living creature so great beauty … it belonged to famous pictures , to poetry , to some legendary past . ’ |
| 12 | First , the surgeon made a vertical three-inch cut upwards from the base of my palm . |
| 13 | I lie on my side in foetal position , while an extremely competent young doctor administers a local anaesthetic into the base of my spine . |
| 14 | I had the epidural injection in the base of my spine and then I was all rigged up to a machine so the nurses could monitor the baby 's movements . |
| 15 | There 's this fist of flesh at the base of my neck , which the men do n't yet have . |
| 16 | He turned his head slightly towards me and spoke in the direction of my tie . |
| 17 | But I slowly became aware that they were all looking at me — just the time that sergia became aware of the direction of my gaze . |
| 18 | Then Emily , following the direction of my gaze , watched the light , or lights , as they swayed through the trees towards us . |
| 19 | I realized that the odd muffled mumbling from the direction of my co-star before our first entrance was the sentence on the business-card . |
| 20 | I regard that day as determining the direction of my life for the next two years at least . |
| 21 | The direction of my opponent 's gaze , and Rainbow 's puzzlement , gives me the answer . |
| 22 | The more I thought about it , the shedding of my watch became symbolic , and I rejoiced accordingly . |
| 23 | Again this is about the procedure that we 're following , but we 're talking now about rules procedures for branches and I have to say that I 'm up here without the support of my region on this one . |
| 24 | Dorothy , Birmingham West Midlands region , supporting composite thirty two , speaking without the support of my region , but only because we did n't get around to discussing it , but we will , we will . |
| 25 | I found it personally difficult to justify the cost to my society of attending these occasions in times of recession , and I would have dearly loved to have had the support of my spouse on the occasions when I did go . |
| 26 | ‘ I should have had the support of my team but they are gutless . |
| 27 | I wanted to find a job which I believed would be secure , since my primary responsibility was , and remains to this day , the support of my family . |
| 28 | He seemed totally relaxed , and I felt the prickle of my fear . |
| 29 | I … despised most of the boys , that were at all near my own age — and before I was eight years old , I was a character — sensibility , imagination , vanity , sloth , & feelings of deep & bitter contempt for almost all who traversed the orbit of my understanding , were even then prominent & manifest . |
| 30 | The existence of my plan does not mean , however , that I shall stick rigidly to it come what may . |